TM Member selling stolen subaru parts

[Guest vf20/21bg5]

 smurff said:

heard of many cars stolen even though parked in by other cars.

guy i worked with had his parked in and he lived down a long driveway, the two cars in front had there hand brakes cut and were towed out the way by a long whinch cable from the tow truck that was half way up the drive so you couldnt hear it.

then they had put an extra remote on his alarm, silently disarmed it, rolled it foreward and towed it up onto the truck.

turns out it was the mechanics that he had taken his car.

if they want it, its gone lol

-smurff

mechanics are the best theives cause we know the most about cars technicly and we can get keys cut or new car alarm switches coaded while your car is in with us getting serviced etc etc etc......dont take to dodgy looking mechanics(well how do you spot one anyway?) older is better, really old is a gift and hairy's or aprentices are the worst

[Joker]

so you also have a dog to throw a steak at to keep busy and a r34 skyline... nice

(it does pay to be a tad paranoid sometimes with what you post on the public interweb)

but yes I can also appreciate the simple measures that do make your treasure slightly more secure than most

[boon]

1. Soak steak in something nasty, antifreeze maybe?

2. Throw at dog

3. Come back in 20 minutes

And yeah, the old cut the handbrake and roll them out the way technique is not exactly new.

Pro-tip: When taking your car to any service type place, give them your spare alarm fob. Most alarms will only allow 2 fobs to be coded to them, and they drop the one that hasn't connected in the longest time. So if you come back to pick your car up and your usual fob doesn't work any more you know they've probably coded another one to it... so take all your wheel-nuts off when you get home that night \

But yeah, for all the elaborate schemes people have, if some scum wants it they'll take it.

I reckon about the safest you'll get in a practical manner is a locked, alarmed garage with your car locked and alarmed inside.

If you're super super paranoid, switch off the breaker to your garage door opener and put a bolt through the manual door release thing. Even if it won't stop them completely, it'll slow them down enough that hopefully they won't bother.

If some bastard really, really wants it, they'll take it. The key is to make it SO hard for them that they don't want it that much any more.

[Joker]

or just get insurance... dont store anything irreplaceable in it

[Guest vf20/21bg5]

 JoKer said:

so you also have a dog to throw a steak at to keep busy and a r34 skyline... nice

(it does pay to be a tad paranoid sometimes with what you post on the public interweb)

but yes I can also appreciate the simple measures that do make your treasure slightly more secure than most

lol nope its an inside dog, little toy doggy ;D sleeps inside but hears everythin outside in the still of night.....plus my partners a homebased childcare provider during work hours so day times stuffed at my addy for the crim....even i couldnt steal my own car if i tried!

[Guest]

well even so i bet they would still be reasonably happy with the R34

[Guest vf20/21bg5]

 ELUCIV said:

well even so i bet they would still be reasonably happy with the R34

nah stupid things missing a turbo! Can sumone come and take it away, its only worth now bout 8k but its insured for 14k......same as this but it has a rear spoiler and a 1999 http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Cars/Nissan/R34/auction-344787701.htm ....2.5ltr tiptronic hahahahaha stupid woman bought it just b4 i met her, if only i was thr i would have made sure it was GTT (well tried)

[Guest]

so is it the RB25 neo?

[KwS]

fuckin good to hear Dave, hope you get a decent amount of bits back. Had he managed to sell much? suppose engine (and all other big money bits) etc is gone?

[Guest vf20/21bg5]

 ELUCIV said:

so is it the RB25 neo?

2.5 neo yes

[mattapo]

didn't he do a single turbo conversion on a legacy then sell it?

[Drunkenmonkey]

i do believe he did, didnt you see a legacy at his matt?

[mattapo]

i think he had sold it by then, find the listing, the engine e.t.c could be in it, what was his cs user name

[KwS]

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hpu7G33VdM8J:www.trademe.co.nz/members/listings.aspx%3Fmember%3D222808%26sort_order%3Dprice_asc+richkiwiboy&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=nz

Interesting....?

[mattapo]

could be it

[KwS]

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wb2DqmSoxN8J:www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Car-parts-accessories/Subaru/Engines/auction-326120599.htm+http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Car-parts-accessories/Subaru/Engines/auction-326120599.htm&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=nz

Thats a mighty well painted manifold.... it should be, seeing as the paint was only a couple of months old at the time.

[mattapo]

got a pic of daves engine bay?

[KwS]

Dug around, and found a couple of average ones of when it was rebuilt and went into the first shell (which an evo demolished soon after it went in)

[mattapo]

look at the tarnishing on the iscv pipe, i reckon thats it, DAVE, found ya engine

[KwS]

fuckin CSI: CS-SQUAD

[mattapo]

And thats the way..............(Puts sunnies on).........the cookie crumbles

[KwS]

Youre definately right about the wear on the IACV pipe, where it goes over the thottle cable linkage, got the same pattern of brightness on both pictures.

It sucks to be whoever has it if we can find the buyer.... but damnit, i want to see justice and dave get all his stuff back.

[mattapo]

it would suck for the buyer but legally i believe it can go back to dave.

[KwS]

Just been going through his feedback on tm.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=344865420

Look real similar to daves car in these pics.

http://www.clubsub.org.nz/forum/index.php/topic,10361.0.html

[DacerX]

yeah thats my engine, its the same pic of the engine that i used in my photos to sell the car